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Bookstore offers employees reduced-price software

5:39 p.m., May 17, 2005--For the past two years, UD students have been able to purchase deeply discounted Microsoft software for personal use through the University Bookstore’s unique agreement with Microsoft and software seller Journey Ed. This exceptional pricing is now extended to eligible faculty and staff who want to buy software for personal use.

The Technology Solutions Center at [www.tsc.udel.edu] and the University Bookstore at [www.udel.edu/bookstore] have links to the program.

Eligible individuals can go to the center’s home page and follow the "buying software" link under "student, faculty and staff computing purchases," or to the Bookstore's home page and follow the link under “JourneyEd Microsoft Software Package Specials.”

Four products are available at much less than the normal academic
discount--Microsoft Windows XP Professional Upgrade at $79, Microsoft Office Standard for PC at $69, Microsoft Office Professional for PC at $79 and Microsoft Office for Macintosh at $79.

The University Bookstore sells more software online than any Barnes & Noble store in the country. Jennifer Galt, store manager, said extending the program to faculty and staff will likely increase sales because many have asked to buy the software in the past. “We get so many inquiries from faculty and staff about whether the pricing applies to them,’’ she said.

Faculty and staff can buy the discounted software online by simply punching in their UD identification numbers.

Janet Drumm, vice president of new business development for Journey Education Marketing, said UD was the first of more than 150 schools to offer the Journey Ed program to students and now it is the first to extend the program to faculty and staff.

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